Chapter 26 People from afar
East African Colony, Second Town.
This is the location of Lufu, a small town in Tanzania in the previous life, and the name of the Little Rhine River in the previous life was Lufu River.
The Little Rhine runs southwest-northeast in East Africa. It starts from the Uluguru Mountains, turns eastward at Kisaki and flows northeast, and flows north of Bagamoyo into the Zanzibar Strait of the Indian Ocean.
The second town is located on the eastern bank of the Little Rhine, and more than 500 newly assigned Chinese immigrants were resettled here. At the same time, more than 50 immigrants who had lived in the first town were transferred from the first town to guide the production and life of the new immigrants. , There are also three Germans in charge of local security management.
Ernst was not afraid that these Chinese immigrants would have bad intentions. These were all selected old farmers who could not read and write, and they had no sense of resistance.
As we all know, the patience of the Chinese is the second highest in the world before they are forced to have no way out. The first is the Indians who are good at non-resistance.
As for the French, they can surrender on the battlefield, but you have to lower their treatment. The next day, the troublemakers in Paris dare to besiege the government building. (cold joke)
This is Ernst's view, but it is absolutely true in this era. After all, the lowest-level Chinese are well versed in the golden rule of "people do not fight with officials".
Looking at ancient times, those who took the lead in rebellion in Chinese history had read a few books even if they had not received education. A typical example is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that was just suppressed. Its leader, Hong Xiuquan, himself took part in the imperial examination. up.
Going far, Chen Sheng, the leader of the earliest peasant uprising in Chinese history, could say something like "a sparrow knows the ambition of a grand swan". After all, being able to grow up in the village has a high probability of contacting the lower-level bureaucrats and local dignitaries of the Qin Dynasty.
So when Ernst selected immigrants, his top priority was farmers who had been poor for three generations, or even refugees. It was basically impossible for them to have any culture and knowledge, and at most they had only been exposed to some operas and storytelling.
As a Chinese in his previous life, Ernst understood the thoughts of these people best. No one can take the lead, but the Chinese are the least willing to be "outstanding birds". Massacre", such a tragedy.
The slavish people are the favorite ruling group of the colonists. It is no wonder that the British like to use Indians in the colonies so much. On the one hand, they are obedient, and they are also born with the ability to pretend to be powerful, which just cooperates with the British suppression of various colonies.
There will be no situation in the East African colonies. Instead, the real people who should be careful are those aborigines who have been temporarily captured. There are not many of them now, and they can't make trouble. In the future, they need to be vigilant.
As for the Chinese, their status in the East African colonies is not low, at least in theory. After all, the Germans and Chinese in East Africa are both hired workers of the Hexingen Consortium in identity, and they both signed contracts, so the two are equal in name .
It’s just like the later generations say that everyone is equal, but in the company, do you dare to say such a thing to your boss? So the actual situation is that the Germans belong to the management in the East African colonies, while the Chinese are the management, similar to the company.
The aborigines have not been counted among the people of the East African colonies from the very beginning, and they are currently assets, and they are assets to be sold.
Affected by the development of the East African colonies, the Sultanate of Zanzibar even played a strategy of small profits but high sales, and the prices of indigenous slaves sold to the Arab region were reduced.
Compared with these natives, the new Chinese immigrants are more honest and work hard. After all, the natives have proved that the Germans are not good people, and they always keep their priorities in mind.
There is also a new breakthrough this time, that is, rice planting, which is an indica rice introduced from India. Tanzania and India belong to the tropics, so the East African colonies did not directly try subtropical rice planting, and India is also convenient for transportation, and the distance is shorter. Closer, as long as you negotiate a price with the British merchants who pass through the port of Dar es Salaam along the way, you can take some on their return journey.
The second town is close to the Little Rhine River, and the water source is more secure than the first town, so a large amount of rice is planted in the second town. In the future, there is a high probability that the wetlands in the East African colonies will be the same as the second town.
After all, the yield of rice is higher than that of wheat. In the East African colonies that also need manpower development, they currently pay more labor costs, and the pursuit of better yields is justified.
Not only that, but Ernst also plans to grow corn with higher yields in the East African colonies in the future. In his previous life, Africa was a continent where corn was widely planted.
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In the second town, the newly arrived immigrants are reclaiming the newly developed paddy fields, and the water from the Little Rhine River is introduced from the riverside into the ditches by water trucks, and then introduced into the paddy fields on the well-built ridges.
Li Tiezhu and his fellow farm workers buried their heads in digging the new aqueduct. Their black and thin bodies swung the shovel effortlessly. When they stepped on the Prussian shovel, the soft red soil was brought out by the shovel. The shovel was turned over, and the soil was piled on the ridge on one side.
"Uncle Jiaxiang, you have been here for a few months, tell us what this Kilman (transliteration from German) is like? Does speaking count?" Li Tiezhu asked while digging a ditch.
Li Tiezhu is a newcomer who just came to the East African colony from North China, and he doesn't know much about the Germans in the East African colony.
Zhang Jiaxiang was digging the soil in front, and said: "Why do you ask so many questions? Why don't you just beg for food? Didn't you still work as a tenant farmer for the landlord in the Qing Dynasty? Come here... Ah Feika (German transliteration) Aren't you afraid of being a tenant farmer for Master Kilman?"
Li Tiezhu said: "Then we planted land for the landlords in the Qing Dynasty. We know the roots and the bottom line. We are not familiar with this Mr. Kilman. Aren't we afraid of not knowing?"
"What are you afraid of, kid? At a young age, Kilman people are more terrifying than Mr. Zhou in our village? If it weren't for the fact that you have no way out, you can go to Feika to farm for Mr. Kilman. Just think about it, there is nothing, as long as Master Kilman stutters, thank God." Zhang Jiaxiang said to Li Tiezhu.
"That's true, this year my land is dry, there is no water in the river, Mr. Zhou has gone to the city to live, and the rent is not less than a penny, there is no food at home, and he is too hungry to live, Mr. Kilman When I came to recruit workers, I signed up and finally boarded the ship at sea." Li Tiezhu recalled.
Then he said: "It's the first time I've seen such a big boat in my life. It's bigger than Master Zhou's house. It's just that the life on the boat is difficult. I vomited and diarrhea all over the ground in the first few days. All the rations are fed to the fish in the sea.”
"It's good to come here, Feika. I came here in the same way at the beginning. Now I can eat enough every day. It's still three meals. How can I think it's such a good time to leave the Qing Dynasty! I will finish work at the end of the month, and I can share it if I work well. Two taels of meat, this day is better than Chinese New Year!" Zhang Jiayi said with emotion.
"Good work, can you really eat meat? Uncle Jiaxiang, don't lie to me." Li Tiezhu asked with bright eyes.
"Why am I lying to you? I have eaten it for three months. As long as I don't get mixed up in the last place, every team can get points."
Li Tiezhu heard the words and said: "Then let's wait and work hard, I haven't tasted meat for several years!"
Talking harder, other people also listened to the conversation between the two, and they also had expectations in their hearts, and the progress of repairing the canal was greatly accelerated.
Second Town is also becoming more and more decent in the hands of new immigrants. Even the Germans in charge of the management are a little surprised by the hard work of these Chinese. In terms of the spirit of hard work and hard work, the Chinese are indeed admirable.
(end of this chapter)